AGreenLiving

APRIL 5, 2021

Simply dubbed the Dutchess County Studio, the 800-square-foot dwelling provides an elegant getaway in nature and reduces its carbon footprint with a fossil-fuel-free heating and cooling system that relies on radiant energy. An Upstate New York studio heated and cooled without fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

A sustainable housing development is to be developed in Bristol, featuring innovative low-carbon heating. In the search for a means to cut carbon and improve air quality, the Council has selected a heat pump system previously evaluated in London, according to the company behind it, Kensa Contracting.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

Natural gas is not cleaner than other fossil fuels and using it instead of coal or oil risks achieving little or no reduction in greenhouse gas effects, says science advisory group the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) in a new report “Future of Gas”. The climate does not make compromises.”

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 6, 2024

Drilling has officially started for the feasibility study of a planned geothermal heating and cooling project in the Stormont Estate in Northern Ireland under the GeoEnergy NI project. If results are favorable, a geothermal heat network can replace the current fossil fuel-based heating system.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

While these entities make up the vast majority of carbon emissions and environmental degradation, everyone needs to make a concerted effort to decrease their carbon footprint and do what we can to mitigate our impact on the environment. Heating & Cooling. It’s no longer enough to blame transportation or the meat industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Despite popular belief, electrification does not always lead to a reduction in carbon footprint. To generate electricity, we require energy and 65% of this energy is currently coming from fossil fuels. Similarly, the US and Canada have targets to double electricity consumption and be carbon-free or net-zero by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A planning application was submitted in August, which set out an ambitious sustainability agenda of climate resilience and Net Zero requirements, integrated into the design, including ultra-low carbon emissions, an acute focus on energy efficiency, insulation, on-site energy generation and zero use of fossil fuels in the running of the building.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives). greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. Start with heat. Sponsored Article. Shutterstock.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Eight years ago, the field of carbon removal amounted to a handful of academic lab projects and a few fledgling companies working on a novel concept: sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. Scientists have become more outspoken about the need for carbon removal. A lot has changed since then. Last year, a major U.N.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The company is laying the groundwork to make geothermal systems equitable, affordable, and accessible as it encourages homeowners to make this year’s winter the last for fossil fuel-based heating. Health and safety factors Making the switch to a geothermal system also curb and safety hazards related to burning fossil fuels.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 10, 2024

“We are excited about this both because it’s very high growth, in demand, but also because it [comes from] companies that generally are very committed to the transformation of their [carbon] footprint.” This can also open up some very cool collaborations. This can also open up some very cool collaborations.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Contact Energy (Contact) has developed a way to capture the small amount of naturally occurring carbon dioxide released during geothermal power generation at the Ohaaki geothermal site near Taupo, New Zealand. Purified CO 2 could be used along with green hydrogen to create sustainable fuels for aviation, shipping and other transportation.”

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 8, 2022

As corporate pledges to achieve net zero pile up, carbon offsets — paying someone else to reduce GHG emissions to compensate for your own — are attracting both increased interest and scrutiny. There’s still much to learn about which carbon offset solutions and frameworks will truly be effective and economically viable at scale.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2024

Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Hub Controls ’ award-winning personal energy-management system, Hub Controller, saves customers money by knowing when their heating and cooling systems need to run—and, more importantly, when they can be turned off.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 29, 2024

A series of tests and analyses including down-hole geophysics will then be carried out on the boreholes to identify the optimum numbers and depths of boreholes required to deliver low carbon and renewable heat. It is hoped a future geothermal network will replace the current fossil fuel heating systems at the site.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 8, 2020

The use of LED lighting also reduces the production of carbon footprint. How are fossil fuels converted to electricity? The process uses heat to burn fossil fuels. Once they burn, hydrogen molecules react with oxygen and carbon. As a result, fossil fuels are preserved and employed for other important uses.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 19, 2024

Texas-based Bedrock Energy (Bedrock) has announced the completion of its inaugural geothermal project, a geothermal borefield and heating and cooling system at Building D of the Penn Field mixed-use office and retail campus in Austin. Originally developed in 1918 as an air base for the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

They began by summing all the emissions released at power plants to keep buildings cool and electricity flowing to wall outlets. Then they added the invisible gases drifting out of roof vent pipes from heaters and hot water heaters that burn fuel inside of buildings. A careful accounting of embodied carbon.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 16, 2022

They’re the result of bought energy, such as electricity, steam, heat, and cooling. Electricity is generated as power plants burn fossil fuels. Cooling : Cooling agents – such as chilled water – provided by a third party will contribute to a business’s scope 2 emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

For example, the application of digestate to agricultural soils can improve water retention and water cycling, boost soil organic carbon and biodiversity, and reduce soil erosion. Not all of these benefits can be easily quantified. Notes [1] [link]

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 3, 2023

According to the US Department of Energy , hydrogen fuel can be produced from a broad spectrum of different technologies and energy sources.    These include “fossil fuels, biomass, and water electrolysis with electricity.” Making hydrogen fuel at home requires only the most basic materials.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The manufacturer said sustainable biofuel made from organic waste materials powered a furnace at its plant in St Helen's for more than four days, as part of an industry trial to find a sustainable alternative to fossil gas in glass production. The trial is part of a £7.1m The trial is part of a £7.1m

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Department of Energy study indicates that geothermal heat pumps, which capture the steady temperatures of underground air to heat homes in winter and cool them in summer, could cost-effectively replace fossil-fuel- and electric-powered heating and air conditioning in up to 28 million homes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

All new homes built from 2025 will need to be 'zero carbon ready' in the UK under fresh green building standards published by the government yesterday, which should lead to a major uptick in investment in clean technologies and greener building materials while drastically curbing the market for traditional gas boilers.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Media Authorship. Anheuser-Busch. Anheuser-Busch.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2022

Higher carbon prices are good news for green investment as well as the climate, writes Climate Focus' Darragh Conway. The latest World Bank report on carbon pricing therefore provides some welcome respite to long-suffering climate watchers. Higher carbon prices are good news for green investment.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Saxony, Germany. “We The biggest source of GHG emissions in the EU is the use of fossil fuels in industry, buildings and transport. This means: Embodied carbon: ambitious targets are needed for the future deployment of renewable energy systems.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This method generates biogas, comprising methane and carbon dioxide, suitable for heating, electricity production, or refinement into biomethane for use as a renewable natural gas alternative. This process provides a renewable energy source and reduces reliance on fossil fuels, leading to a decrease in carbon emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Another project in the Midlands has also secured backing to develop "revolutionary" high temperature heat pumps to reduce the energy needed to heat and cool cheese, in a bid to reduce emissions in dairy farms across the region, BEIS said. Winning bidders to the £12.4m Industrial Energy Transformation Fund.

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Grist

JUNE 6, 2024

Met Office, and Carbon Brief — forecasted that 2023 would be marginally hotter than the year before, with the consensus falling around 1.2 Much of this warming over the past year is well within the range of what scientists have long predicted would be the result of burning fossil fuels with abandon. Then 2023 came along.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The world's kilns, reactors, chillers, and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. Certifying renewable thermal solutions. The first step?

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The metric is a calculation of how many degrees the planet would warm by if the amount of carbon dioxide was doubled from pre-industrial times — an amount that is quickly approaching. While Hansen’s research shows that there’s a certain amount of warming locked in even after we stop emitting carbon dioxide, Mann refutes this characterization.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2022

Most electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels which emit greenhouse gasses and other harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels, water, and land are all scarce resources that are at risk without proper energy efficiency initiatives. Reduces your carbon footprint. Company Energy Usage Questions.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Slashing emissions of carbon dioxide emissions alone will not be enough to prevent global temperatures reaching an "irreversible tipping point", new research has this week warned. Our study shows that phasing out fossil fuels is essential but must be paired with targeted action now on methane, black carbon soot, HFCs, and smog.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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